topics song-lyrics 
IP Watchdog
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Music publishing companies Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord filed suit on Wednesday, October 18, in a Tennessee district court against generative artificial intelligence (AI) company, Anthropic, alleging “widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics.”
LexBlog IP
NOVEMBER 17, 2023
and Universal Music Group (“Plaintiffs”) sued AI start-up Anthropic PBC (“Anthropic”) on October 18, 2023, in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee “to address the systematic and widespread infringement of their copyrighted song lyrics” by Anthropic. ABCKO Music, Inc.,
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Patently-O
AUGUST 30, 2022
The basic setup: Genius.com has lots of song lyrics, most of which were posted by fans (i.e., “crowdsourced”). With the data in hand, Google now displays the lyrics in the search results rather than directing traffic to Genius. The case ties in directly to lots of academic work on the topic. Genius sued.
TorrentFreak
MARCH 28, 2023
As such, it is no surprise that the topic is also mentioned in IFPI’s annual Global Music Report , which discusses the state of the global music industry. In particular we have serious concerns about the potential for AI-synthesized voice technology to be used at scale to cover songs and attempt to replace artists.
Plagiarism Today
DECEMBER 8, 2021
Note: This will be an extremely brief overview of music licensing, for more details, check out this 2017 article on the topic. However, the most important thing to remember is that, for every song you stream on Spotify or Pandora, there are two separate copyrights at play: The composition and the recording.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
NOVEMBER 6, 2023
This opinion forces the court to address the boundaries of choreographic copyright, a lightly litigated topic. The four counts in question are repeated eight times throughout the Registered Choreography, corresponding to the chorus and titular lyrics of the accompanying song. Previous blog post. The Ninth Circuit reverses.
LexBlog IP
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
Melissa Viviane Jefferson, better known by her stage name Lizzo, popularized the phrase 100% THAT B H in her hit song “Truth Hurts.” ” But are popular song lyrics able to function as a trademark for a line of clothing? A fulsome discussion about this topic can be found here: [link].
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